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* April 12 - 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin makes the first manned flight in space
* May 15, 1961, Alan Shepard is the first American to make a manned space flight
– * 1965 Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov makes the first spacewalk
* July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 spacecraft manages to make the first landing on the moon
- * 1971 Three Soviet cosmonauts are the first to stay on the Sliot-1 space station. 24 days later they die as a result of an air leak
- * 1973 The USA launches the Skylab space station
– * 1975 First joint mission connects the American Apollo spacecraft with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. The five members of the two teams stay together in space for two days
- * 1986 Russia operates the "Mir" space station
– * 1992 China officially begins research and training astronauts for its space program
- * 1999 China successfully launches and lands the unmanned spacecraft "Shanzhou"
* 1 - In February 2003, seven astronauts, including the Israeli Ilan Ramon, were killed in the crash of the space shuttle Columbia
* October 15, 2003, the Chinese "Shanzhou" 5 spacecraft is launched into a stable orbit around the Earth, with one astronaut, Yang Liwei
They knew about space operations outside the USA
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